HEALDSBURG, CA - MARCH 22: A farmer riding a tractor cleans out the weeds in an old vine zinfandel vineyard on March 22, 2022, near Healdsburg, California.
After record winter rainfall battered the North Coast last year in October and December, Mothe For the third month in a row, precipitation was below average across the contiguous U.S., expanding western drought conditions and areas of record dryness.(FOX Weather) According to NOAA’s U.S.
climate report, March's average monthly temperature across the U.S. was 44.1 degrees, ranking in the warmest third of the 128-year climate record.
Temperatures were warmer than average across much of the West, and from the Midwest to the East Coast. SNOWFALL CONSIDERED CRUCIAL FOR LONG-TERM DROUGHT MITIGATIONAlaska also saw above-average temperatures across much of the state, with Anchorage and Talkeetna both reporting a top-10 warm March.Record heat on March 26 set a new all-time March temperature records for Las Vegas (93 degrees) and Death Valley (104 degrees).Average precipitation in March was 2.26 inches (0.25 of an inch below average), ranking in the driest third of the climate record, NOAA recorded.(FOX Weather) On March 29, roughly 58% of the contiguous U.S.